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Getting Started Guide
This manual describes the web user interface and provides instructions on common uses and best practices for users. It also provides the basic setup, installation and management practices for administrators. For both administrators and users, it functions as a getting started guide.
Using the Graphical User Interface
Monitor has many views and reports, and this section details all of them. It is designed as a reference, so when you generate a report, you will understand all its parameters.
Admin Tab (Admin Only)
Manage and monitor agents and users, and configure reports.
Agents
This option enables you to add, manage and run agents on remote machines.

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A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
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Getting Started Guide
This manual describes the web user interface and provides instructions on common uses and best practices for users. It also provides the basic setup, installation and management practices for administrators. For both administrators and users, it functions as a getting started guide.
- Document Organization
  This manual describes the web user interface and provides instructions on common uses and best practices for users. It also provides the basic setup, installation and management practices for administrators. For both administrators and users, it functions as a getting started guide.
- Theory of Operation
  Monitor monitors tools with licenses using live sampling and debug logs for denials, and it monitors tools with no licenses using wrapper scrips and a monitoring agent.
- Components
  All Altair Accelerator software products are based on a client/server architecture and have three main components: a server, daemons and taskers.
- Installation
  There are four different types of installations available for Monitor.
- First Steps
  We suggest as first steps that you check Monitor to be sure it’s running properly and then perform a few basic tasks to get a feel for the system.
- Common Questions and Basic Uses
  This section explains how to use Monitor to answer common questions. In most cases, there isn’t one answer to a question. Some investigation is required.
- Using the Graphical User Interface
  Monitor has many views and reports, and this section details all of them. It is designed as a reference, so when you generate a report, you will understand all its parameters.
  - Home Page
    Primary page for viewing the status of your licenses and views.
  - Current Tab
    A summary of features with active checkouts.
  - Historical Reports
    Generate and view three types of reports.
  - Views Tab
    Create tables and reports that show the items you’re interested in viewing and tracking.
  - Network Tab
    Displays information on hosts and file systems on which agents are running.
  - Admin Tab (Admin Only)
    Manage and monitor agents and users, and configure reports.
    - Monitors
      This option enables you to add an existing monitor or edit and delete and existing monitors.
    - Notifications
      This option enables you to configure notifications for health checks and SMTP configurations and manage who receives notification emails.
    - Agents
      This option enables you to add, manage and run agents on remote machines.
    - Groups
      This option enables you to keep track of projects, departments or other organizational units and to create custom groups.
    - Tags
      Tags enable you to manage tags and tag data found in the server and in the database.
    - Features
      This option enables you to manage features and feature-related data found in the server and in the database.
    - Links
      This option enables you to add and create links that will appear on the home page.
    - System
      This option enables you to view system, database, security, configuration and workweek information.
    - Daemons
      This page shows the active daemons and their status.
    - Tasks
      This page shows the Periodic Job List and enables you to pause and run jobs.
    - Licensing
      This page shows the Monitor license status and enables you to make changes to the current license environment.
  - Control Center
    Manage licenses on remote servers.
- Basic Operations and Setup (Admin Only)
  This section is organized into a series of instructions designed to guide you through the beginning steps of setting up your Monitor system.
- Troubleshooting
  Answers to common questions when using Monitor.
Altair Monitor User Guide
Altair Monitor is a software license tracking tool that reports current and historical license utilization. The license managers that Monitor supports includes FlexNet Publisher, Reprise, LUM, and many others. The primary user interface for accessing Monitor is a web interface.
Altair Monitor Administrator Guide

Agents

This option enables you to add, manage and run agents on remote machines.

An agent is required on every machine that is to be monitored for process and network information, or for performing remote license server administration tasks.

If the Altair Accelerator installation and remote connectivity (ssh, rsh, or vovtsd) to the remote machine are both available, you can use the form on this page to add agents.
If the Altair Accelerator installation or remote connectivity is not available, you need to set up agents locally on the remote machine

From this page, you can also start all agents and manage existing ones.

To learn how to set up an agent via the web interface, go to Add and Configure an Agent using the Web GUI.
To set an agent up with the CLI, go to Add an Agent – File-Based Configuration.